A review by ericabo_louise
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower

5.0

This should be taught for all students of history ever planning to do primary source work, archival research, personal interviews--any kind of close-touch, close-examination, investigatory discovery, all the words I don't have for getting into the most granular details to the literal ground-level observation, as well as students curious about archival studies. It's a case study in how a single document can tell such a larger scale story or how it can reveal sides of a history you think you've already been taught. Another heartbreaker of non-fiction but just an education in research methodology and persistence.